| Energy resources are the lifeblood and the support of our national economy. Energy security, concerning economic security, environmental safety, ecological security, is the basic safeguard of our national security. Saving energy resource is the inevitable demand to promote production and to improve the quality of the people's life. Under the background of economic globalization; our country's energy security has faced with many questions, and has become the major constraining factor to the economic and social development of China.Through basing on China's realities, conforming to the historical trend of the times and trying to explore the ideas, the principles, the policies and the measures which may solve the energy crisis, the third generation leaders of CPC central committee, taking Jiang Zemin as the core, have formed rich thoughts about saving energy resources which have not only inherited predecessors but also kept pace with the times. The thought has made important contributions to solve our country's energy resources crisis at the turn of the century, also to provide theoretical instruction and concrete practical experience for the new central collective leadership to deal better with our country's energy resources questions.The article has discussed the formed backgrounds, conditions, causes, policies, measures and values of the third generation leaders of CPC central committee's thought about saving energy resources.The formed conditions of the third generation leaders of CPC central committee's thought about saving energy resources have included time background-economic globalization, theory source- Marxism on saving and reality basis- Chinese practical experience.The reasons for the formation of the third generation leaders of CPC central committee's thought about saving energy resources have included: energy resources has been becoming the major constraining factor to the economic and social development of China; energy security has concerned national security; the consumptions of energy resources have caused serious ecological questions; saving energy resources is the need of our country's reality, the request of economic sustainable development, even the inheritance and expansion of Chinese traditional virtues.The strategies of the third generation leaders of CPC central committee's thought about saving energy resources have included economy measures , administrative means, finance and tax policies, law means, propaganda methods, making use of international markets, etc. which all have been carried out concretely in the article.The values of the third generation leaders of CPC central committee's thought about saving energy resources have included theory significance and practical significance. Providing theoretical basis for implementing scientific development concept and constructing the harmonious society and the"two types of societies"is the main theory significance. Providing concrete methods for ensuring national security, promoting economic growth, alleviating environmental pollution, improving the quality of the people's life and so on is the main practical significance. |